Solohub, Andrii

Solohub, Andrii [Сологуб, Андрій], b 8 December 1922 in Konotop, Chernihiv gubernia, d 2010. Sculptor and painter. A postwar displaced person and émigré, he studied sculpting in Salzburg (1947–9) under Fedir Yemets and painting at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He created busts (eg, of Symon Petliura) and small sculptures and painted modernist portraits (Self-Portrait, Dariia Siiak, Emma Andiievska, Irena Zhukovska, Oksana and Danylo Struk), still lifes (Still Life with Violin), and landscapes (Toledo, Paris, Istanbul, Venice) and the iconostasis of Saint Simon’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Paris (1973). In his later years he devoted himself to painting landscape aquarelles of Venice, southern France, and Paris. An album of his drawings was published in 1974.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 4 (1993).]